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Lot 584
A 20th century oil painting on board by Colin Vincent of a still life with jug, fruit, etc signed bottom right, with label verso, together with a further oil painting by the same hand of a quayside scene with the SS Great Britain, signed bottom left and dated 1995 with label verso SS Great Britain C Vincent, 25 x 38cm both framed
Lot 181
A Set of Six Royal Worcester Porcelain Coffee Cups and Saucers, 1938 and 1940, painted by Edward Townsend and Harry Ayrton with still life of fruit on a mossy bank, signed, printed marks in puce; together with Six Silver Gilt Coffee Spoons, London 1937 and 1938, contained in a fitted leather case See illustrationSome typical very minor surface wear. 310517
Lot 1048
A mid 20th century canvas and wooden bound steamer trunk chest belonging to William Gerard Leigh of the 1st Life Guards. Together with a grey metal military campaign trunk still bearing a military label marked for W Gerard Leigh. The canvas bound trunk with label for his daughter Emily Gerard Leigh ( calne school ) ( J Gerard Leighs larger military campaign trunk in lot 1419 ) William Gerard Leigh whose significant career as also a Life Guard soldier and interestingly married Jean Gerard Leigh ( the latter trunk her daughters for Calne School), famous for being the the woman whose photograph was used to help trick the Germans into falling for one of the greatest deceptions of the Second World War in Operation Mincemeat. Operation Mincemeat, which was to inspire a film called The Man Who Never Was in the 1950s, was devised in the spring of 1943 by two intelligence officers, Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and Commander Ewen Montagu of Naval Intelligence. With Churchill planning to invade Italy through Sicily, a ruse was required to make the Germans believe that the attack would take place elsewhere.
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